Baptist Press Archive

Friday, August 11, 2006

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  • Mideast turmoil: More complex than the Ishmael-Isaac rift
    by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, August 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

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    An Israeli Arab women and her child cry after a Hezbollah missile strike July 19 in Haifa, Israel. Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--While it’s an oversimplification to say the strife in the Middle East at its core is just bad blood between brothers, some people believe there is biblical justification for that position.

    They’re referring to Abraham’s two sons by two mothers: Ishmael, the firstborn to handmaiden Hagar, and Isaac, born in God’s timing to 100-year-old Sarah. Read More

  • CBF church count violates church autonomy, scholars say
    by Gregory Tomlin, posted Friday, August 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, self-described as a "renewal movement of free and faithful Baptists," has grown since its founding in 1991 to include up to 2,000 churches, according to statements from the group’s leaders. Read More

  • SBC, CBF seminaries differ in educational approach, profs say
    by Gregory Tomlin, posted Friday, August 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--There was a time when Russell Moore thought the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship would succeed as a denomination by carving out a "unique niche among the religious bodies in the South," but today the senior vice president and theology dean at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says his previous thoughts about the group’s future were wrong. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Terrorism is our fault?
    by Kelly Boggs, posted Friday, August 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

    ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--“Do you believe the Islamic terrorists to be evil?” the radio host asked the lady who had called his program Aug. 10. There was a pause. “No, I do not,” she replied. “We should look at ourselves to discover what we did to make them hate us so much. This is all our fault.” Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Are You Serious?
    by Kenneth S. Hemphill, posted Friday, August 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--It has been nearly four years since Southern Baptists officially set themselves on a quest we call "Empowering Kingdom Growth." I came to the Executive Committee to become EKG's first full-time national strategist nearly three years ago. Southern Baptists were insistent that EKG not become another slogan or program. Thus we have faced a challenge in our attempt to develop an EKG process without allowing it to become another program. Read More